"When he would promulgate his decrees, his herald proclaimed them from Tzatzitepec, the hill of shouting, with such a mighty voice that it could be heard a hundred leagues around. The arrows which he shot transfixed great trees; the stones he threw leveled forests; and when he laid his hands on the rocks the mark was indelible."[3]
"His symbols were the bird, the serpent, the cross, and the flint."[4]
In the Aztec calendar the sign for the age of fire is the flint.
In the Chinese Encyclopædia of the Emperor Kang-hi, 1662, we are told:
"In traveling from the shores of the Eastern Sea toward Che-lu, neither brooks nor ponds are met with in the country, although it is intersected by mountains and valleys. Nevertheless, there are found in the sand, very far away from the sea, oyster-shells and the shields of crabs. The tradition of the Mongols who inhabit the country is, that it has been said from time immemorial that in a
[1. Tyler's "Early Mankind," p. 224.
2. Brinton's "Myths of the New World," p. 197.
3. Ibid., p. 197.
4. Ibid., p. 198.]
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